Julien Zinsmeister Vítek Wins International Winter Swimming World Championships 450m

Courtesy of International Winter Swimming World Championships, Lake Bled, Slovenia.

Julien Zinsmeister of France followed up his new age group record in the 1000m freestyle at the 2020 International Winter Swimming World Championships in Lake Bled, Slovenia with the fastest overall time in the 450m race (5:51.36).

Men’s 450m Freestyle Results:

B (20-29 years, Age Group World Record: 5:15.34)
1. Julien Zinsmeister 5:51.36 France
2. Colin Bushweller 6:18.37 Czech Republic

C (30-39 years, Age Group World Record: 5:25.39)
1. Luka Turk 6:11.01 Slovenia
2. Aleksey Gulakov 6:49.98 Russia
3. Michal Slanina 7:03.13 Czech Republic
4. Ulf Karnikowski 7:12.12 Germany
5. Rauno Pärg 7:36.56 Estonia
6. Ľuboš Špajdel 7:42.92 Slovakia
7. Peter Plavec 8:22.01 Slovakia
8. José Vilpoux 9:09.54 Austria
9. Chun Kong Mak 9:46.73 Hong Kong
10. Milan Rozsíval9:59.71 Czech Republic
11. Jaroslav Vavrik 10:41.59 Czech Republic
12. Bartłomiej Rzepecki 12:54.07 Poland
DSQ Alain Simac-Lejeune France

D (40-44 years, Age Group World Record: 5:51.86)
1. Rostislav Vítek 5:55.86 Czech Republic
2. Vit Polansky 6:12.30 Czech Republic
3. Jiri Polansky 6:15.4 Czech Republic
4. Mario Fernández Gorgojo 6:21.89 Spain
5. Remigiusz Golebiowski 6:50.12 Poland
6. Stefan Göritzer 7:00.73 Germany
7. Vitaliy Burlitskiy 7:03.14 Russia
8. Nicholas Murch 7:16.00 United Kingdom
9. Richard Nyáry 7:21.34 Slovakia
10. Mauricio Lopez 7:27.47 Argentina
11. Zdeněk Sláma 7:27.85 Czech Republic
12. Roman Danilov 7:42.00 Russia
13. Eugeniy Zozulya 7:49.32 Russia
14. Michal Stengl 7:50.65 Czech Republic
15. Federico Miot 8:05.07 Italy
16. Jaroslav Pekárek 8:06.80 Czech Republic
17. Martin Ball 8:17.22 United Kingdom
18. Radomir Kurecka 8:52.54 Czech Republic
19. Janis Buna 9:05.06 Latvia
20. Martin Krupička 9:39.32 Czech Republic
21. Michal Kohoutek 9:40.71 Czech Republic
22. Milan Paprcka 9:49.45 Slovakia
23. Ulrich Fuerlinger 9:58.00 Austria
24. Martin Hanacek 10:21.66 Czech Republic
25. Christoph Sivich 11:45.00 Austria
DNF Lucas RIVET DNF Argentina

E (45-49 years, Age Group World Record: 5:49.14)
1. Henri Kaarma 6:47.18 Estonia
2. Andrew Allum 6:56.00 United Kingdom
3. Lars Mack 7:16.73 Germany
4. Piotr Biankowski 7:23.78 Poland
5. Marko Rafaj 7:27.53 Croatia
6. Dezider Pék 7:27.63 Slovakia
7. Martin Mečiar 7:27.66 Slovakia
8. Michael Hudson 7:39.45 Czech Republic
9. Denis Benčič 8:00.99 Slovenia
10. Jesper Teslak-Larsen 9:39.62 Denmark
11. Marek Svejda 9:47.15 Czech Republic
12. Alan Stickland 9:47.59 United Kingdom
13. Michael Marx 10:04.83 Germany
14. Matthew Davenport 10:45.88 United Kingdom
15. Marek Košecky 11:17.56 Slovakia

F (50-54 years, Age Group World Record: 5:32.89)
1. Christof Wandratsch 6:09.53 Germany
2. Marek Rother 6:24.05 Poland
3. Stefan Runge 6:44.41 Germany
4. Colin Hill 6:47.74 United Kingdom
5. Jakub Valnicek 7:37.29 Czech Republic
6. Martin Kuchenmeister 7:54.24 Austria
7. Robert Šupa 8:27.09 Slovakia
8. Filip Jicha 9:36.60 Czech Republic
9. Dr. Alexandre Fuzeau 9:49.34 France
10. Jens Trommer 9:59.32 Germany
11. Sergey Vlasov 10:07.28 Russia
12. Jaroslav Zeman 10:27.15 Czech Republic
13. Ivan Tonhajzer 10:42.72 Slovakia
14. Jean Pierre Vanderydt 10:53.55 France
15. Roman Karkachev 11:14.66 Russia
16. Maxime Valabregue 12:12.16 France
17. Anthony Baxter 12:36.63 United Kingdom
18. Matjaž Bučinel 12:55.66 Slovenia
DSQ Dario Oscar Silva Argentina

G (55-59 years, Age Group World Record: 6:39.12)
1. Denis Colombe 7:07.12 France
2. Martin Tschepe 7:18.34 Germany
3. James Norton 7:54.95 United Kingdom
4. Oleg Chekushkin 8:09.99 Russia
5. Aleksei Tereštšenkov 8:16.19 Estonia
6. Oleg Dokuchaev 9:37.68 Russia
7. Ivan Lalak 9:54.64 Czech Republic
8. Gordan Zelenika 10:23.00 Croatia
9. Enzo Favoino 10:37.28 Italy
10. Peter Hoegdal 11:22.05 Denmark
11. Richard Hirmer 11:23.98 Germany
12. Dmitriy Karmelitkiy 12:59.49 Russia
13. Henrik Madsen 13:25.65 Denmark
DSQ Gianfranco Boccia Italy

H (60-64 years, Age Group World Record: 6:12.64)
1. Rory Fitzgerald 6:38.58 United Kingdom
2. Brian Bain 7:05.96 United Kingdom
3. Nick Hungerford 9:15.10 United Kingdom
4. Franz Herbst 9:29.06 Germany
5. Radomir Suchopa 9:38.14 Czech Republic
6. Andis Bukonts 9:38.38 Latvia
7. Frank Sibilak 13:34.74 Germany
8. Pavel Pinta 13:50.00 Czech Republic

I (65-69 years, Age Group World Record: 6:37.99)
1. Andrew Wolf 8:03.39 United Kingdom
2. Alexandr Komarov 09:30.63 Russia
3. Aleksandr Zelenetskiy 9:53.73 Russia
4. Ivan Landa 10:21.28 Czech Republic
5. Ivan Marek 11:36.21 Czech Republic
6. Alex Kirschner 13:22.36 Slovakia

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